Twin Cities Business

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Twin Cities Business is Minnesota’s leading provider of business news, insight, and analysis through daily online news stories, e-newsletters, a monthly print magazine and live events. Along with our readers, we get to know the personalities of our region’s most influential leaders, exploring the “how” behind their success, strategies, and solutions. We discuss today’s most pressing issues, examine trends and outlooks, and provide the context, perspective, and information leaders have come to depend upon. Source

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A Plymouth company developing an injectable drug aimed at treating lower back pain has received more than $2 million from investors, pushing it near the halfway mark of a $5 million funding round it kicked off this month.SpineThera Inc. so far has attracted fourteen backers in its current round, each investing $25,000 or more, according to a regulatory filing published Tuesday.SpineThera CEO Jeffrey Missling told TCB he hopes the round wraps up soon as the company is currently preparing for...

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Hitch Health, a local startup focused on improving patient attendance rates for medical appointments by providing free and convenient transportation, is taking its business national through a partnership deal with the ride-share company Lyft.The Minneapolis-based startup, which is backed by Upstream Health Innovations, the innovation arm of Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and its parent company Hennepin Healthcare System Inc., announced the nationwide launch on Tuesday.Hitch Health...

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The University of Minnesota, with its workforce in the thousands and numerous patents and research arms, annually creates billions of dollars in economic activity, a new report has found.The study by Tripp Umbach, a national research firm based in Pittsburgh, found that the University of Minnesota contribution to the State of Minnesota totals more than $8.6 billion a year.The public university generates more than $470 million in state taxes, according to the report, and supports more than...

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Financial challenges are always a concern for hospital executives. But moving up fast on the list of things that keep hospital leaders up at night are personnel shortages.That’s according to the latest annual survey from the American College of Healthcare Executives on the top issue confronting hospitals.

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St. Paul-based Minnesota Public Radio is a nonprofit, but it has always been a business-minded operation. Now, the Glen Nelson Center, a new arm of MPR parent American Public Media, will operate like a venture capital firm, looking to invest in promising startups. What does this have to do with APM’s mandate to run a media organization?

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Following the landmark announcement last month that federal regulators have approved Mayo Clinic’s bid to automate the production of stem cells in Jacksonville, Florida, a new study has shown they can be safely transported across long distances without losing their effectiveness.That finding means many of the billions of stem cells to be produced in Florida could be safely frozen and shipped to Mayo’s Rochester clinic to carry out large-scale clinical studies there as researchers seek to...

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At the request of Mayo Clinic’s board of trustees, Dr. John Noseworthy will stay on as president and CEO of the Rochester institution until the end of the year, allowing time for a search committee to elect a new leader in the coming months.Noseworthy, a 28-year veteran of Mayo Clinic, took over as its top executive in November 2009.

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Target has locked down a partnership deal with the Science Museum of Minnesota to sell the retro “Thunder Lizard” hoodie recently popularized by the television show “Stranger Things.”The purple sweatshirt took the internet by storm late last year after the second season of the Netflix hit series premiered.

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We’ve all heard the commercials. The lengthy list of possible side effects and potential complications makes us laugh and question whether taking the medication will make you sicker than the disease it’s trying to treat. What’s not funny, especially to employers, is the cost of these wonder drugs, called “specialty drugs” in pharma and benefits parlance.

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Twitter handles (e.g. @username) — returns those who have mentioned or replied to
given user

Names (e.g. "David Pogue")

Hashtags (e.g. #sxsw, #london2012)

Bio details (e.g. vegan, Olympics, father)

Advanced terms

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AND

Find results that mention multiple specified terms, use AND or
+. For example, ensure each result contains both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg by
searching Musk AND Zuckerberg or Musk + Zuckerberg.

OR

Use the operators OR or , to broaden your search when you'd like either of
multiple terms to appear in results. (This is the default behavior of our search when no operators
are used). For example, results will contain either cake or cookie by searching cake OR cookie or cake,cookie

NOT

Use NOT or - to subtract results from your search. For
example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney
World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney
NOT World.

Phrases

When using one of these operators with a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks. For example, you can
find results about smartphones excluding Apple's iPhone 4S by searching smartphone -"iPhone
4s".

Exact case matching or punctuation

If you're searching for a brand name or keyword that relies on specific punctuation marks or capitalization, you can
find results that match your exact query by adding matchcase: before the keyword you're searching for, like matchcase:E*TRADE .

Combining operators

Use parentheses to separate multiple
boolean phrases. For example, to find journalists talking about having fun in Disney World or
Disneyland, search for ("disney world" OR disneyland) AND fun.

Asterisk

An asterisk can be used to search for any variation of a root word truncated by the asterisk. For example, searching for admin* will return results for administrator, administration, administer, administered, etc.

Near

A near operator is an AND operator where you can control the distance between the words. You can vary the distance the near operation uses by adding a forward slash and number (between 0-99) such as strawberries NEAR/10 "whipped cream", which means the strawberries must exist within 10 words of "whipped cream".